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“Find The Light” is a lyric from a song by Yungblud called “Kill Somebody”. The song, whose meaning was recently misinterpreted by a community somewhere in California*, actually represents a person’s gut response to feeling like they don’t fit in, are misunderstood and who may even be experiencing abuse whether physical or emotional. Here are the lyrics: Today you made me feel irrelevant Twisted my intelligence Made it seem there's no brain in my head I'm like a skeleton, can't shut my eyes Right now I feel like I'm an alien I'm so fucking dangerous Cover up the evidence with medicine I can't find the life All I wanna do is kill somebody Kill somebody, kill somebody like you You, you, you, you All I wanna do is kill somebody Kill somebody, kill somebody like you You, you, you, you Today you turned me a cork screw Fought me like law suit Put words in my mouth that I don't want you to And I lost my clout And my time is acting as my currency You can't take that away from me Treat the young with no accountability Shoot me down All I wanna do is kill somebody Kill somebody, kill somebody like you You, you, you, you Right, right now I'm feel like an alien Like I'm just sitting in a state of perpetual frustration Go on, shove me again Fuck with my head, leave me for dead Please? And yeah, you may think, you may think this is a metaphor Something you've never heard before A note I found on the floor And subconsciously pinned to the door But then you motherfuckers could cross a mountain And I still wouldn't believe what you thought All I wanna do is kill somebody Kill somebody Kill somebody like you You, you, you, you All I wanna do is kill somebody Kill somebody Kill somebody like you You, you, you, you All I wanna do is kill somebody Kill somebody Kill somebody like you You, you, you, you Oh, oh Written By: Dominic Harrison, Martin Terefe and Matt Schwartz Growing up the only child to an alcoholic father and Borderline Personality Disorder mother, “Kill Somebody” really resonated with me. It’s as if these lyrics could have come from inside my 19 year-old poet’s head; the life I led was, to say the very least, challenging. The phrase “Find The Light” made an impression on and stuck with me. As I matured, as emotional burdens have worn away and as those scars are finally healing rather than remaining with my younger mentality of feeling defeated, alone and like “I can’t find the light”, I prefer to focus on the phrase “FIND THE LIGHT”. I find it to be quite inspirational. Those words, Dominic’s (Yungblud’s) unbelievably personable and stigma-free approach to life and love coupled with how truly out of control some things are in our society currently (like gun control/legislation, silencing those that are mentally challenge with drugs rather than with understanding, etc.) made me decide to "Be the change I want to see". So, life-long Purveyor of Dreams and Entertainment professional that I am, I branched out on my own to try to mitigate the aid that our society so desperately needs. The only way I know how to do this is to produce events. Large scale. For well meaning and thoroughly researched non-profit organizations because I trust that the bigger the donations are that they receive, the better the resources they can offer and/or legislation that can be addressed and altered for the better of our society. Find The Light's first concert event is planned for March of 2022. So, stay tuned! We will keep everyone abreast of our milestones along the way and remember, always, always, always look for the LIGHT. There’s no hope in the darkness. ~ Kathryn “China” Hayzer, CEO of Find The Light & Purveyor of Dreams Follow us on Instagram at @ChinaCatDoll Contact us for partnership or sponsorship opportunities for the festival and visit our website: www.FindTheLight.info (currently under construction) *The Hanford High School won a contest sponsored by Chegg to have Yungbud come to the school and play. Local parents took the meaning of “Kill Somebody” to be literal without bothering to do any research. *Photo credit Joe’s pizza delivery guy - pizza sent from me to Yungblud and his bandmates/team at Baby’s All Right Brooklyn, NY October 25, 2018 then we met for the first time in Philadelphia two days later. The rest, as they say, is history.
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